For as long as there have been iPhones, there’s been a desire to hack the OS and enable the device to download material not available in the app store. But now, right on the heels of Verizon adding the iPhone to its catalog, it seems Apple has had enough of the practice. Now Apple has a check in place, and if you jailbreak your iPhone, iBooks will no longer work.

I can’t adequately describe how the check works, but what happens once a user tries to open up iBooks on a jailbroken iPhone is that they get a message stating there is a problem with the configuration of the device, and the user should restore the iPhone using iTunes and reload the app. It’s all pretty cut and dry, really.

My question, though, is why Apple has bothered adding the script to this particular app, with so many other e-reader apps available for iPhone. I suppose if a user has bought many books through the app, they’d not want to lose access to them, but a lot of people buy e-books that require apps such as Kindle or Stanza, not iBooks. So, I just sort of wonder if this is a moot point. It may be anyway, as people are already finding ways around the checking measure.

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